Globalization is one of the biggest social processes which the humanity has facing since ever. That's why it's impact in the global economy is huge. Facing a global challenge financial information system has called for consistent financial information produced by accounting. One of the main...

The aim of this paper is to trace the principal ideas in Paton and Littleton's influential 1940 monograph to their previous and contemporaneous writings, and thus to uncover the ideas' origins in the literature

This study systematically points out where accounting problems will arise and how US GAAP and IFRS deal with these problems. It subsequently examines the differences in oil and gas accounting under US GAAP and IFRS in order to determine the impact on the financial statements. Current literature...

This paper expands prior IFRS accounting systems' classifications to a broader set of 27 countries where the IFRS adoption is a widespread practice, plus the United States of America (USA). The results suggest a classification distinguishing between three groups of countries, based on the...

The earliest paper on international classification of accounting systems is one hundred years old. For about 15 years from the late 1960s, many papers on the subject were published. One feature of several of the classifications was the dichotomous split of countries into ‘Anglo' and...

This paper uses the classification of accounting systems as a guide to explore the impact of new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting rules on corporate financial statements and financial ratios in comparison to their local counterparts in selected European countries. In...

Use of harmonized accounting standards may reduce investor’s uncertainty and can thus reduce the cost of capital. It can significantly improve the communication between business users and all their statements. Due to the globalization of business and international harmonization of financial...

Historically, every country had its own accounting standards, each merging to some extent with its local corporate, labor, and tax laws. No matter how undesirable, it was natural to expect differences among nations. Globalization made these differences so impractical that from corporate leaders...

This paper investigates whether foreign institutional investors affect the global convergence of financial reporting practices. Using several measures of reporting convergence, we show that U.S. institutional ownership is positively associated with subsequent changes in emerging market firms'...